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Canada Wildlife Act; Related topics. ... The following is a list of common fish species known to occur in the lakes and rivers of ... (freshwater eels) American ...
Fish of Canada — species of freshwater fish and marine fish native to the North American country and its coasts. Subcategories. This category has the following 2 ...
The lake whitefish (Coregonus clupeaformis) is a species of freshwater whitefish from North America. Lake whitefish are found throughout much of Canada and parts of the northern United States, including all of the Great Lakes. The lake whitefish is sometimes referred to as a "humpback" fish due to the small size of the head in relation to the ...
According to the AquaMaps website in August 2013, the project held standardized distribution maps for over 17,300 species of fishes, marine mammals and invertebrates. The project is also expanding to incorporate freshwater species, [4] with more than 600 biodiversity maps for freshwater fishes of the Americas available as at November 2009 ...
The lake chub (Couesius plumbeus) is a freshwater cyprinid fish found in Canada and in parts of the United States. Of all North American minnows, it is the one with the northernmost distribution. Its genus, Couesius is considered monotypic today. The genus was named after Elliott Coues, who collected the holotype specimen.
The entire Canadian population of this small freshwater fish lives along a roughly 60 kilometre stretch of the Sydenham River in southwestern Ontario, where its presence was discovered only in 1972. The blackstripe topminnow is a fairly hardy fish although its greatest threats come from changes to its habitat due to human activity. [4]
List of fishes of Canada; This page is a redirect. The following categories are used to track and monitor this redirect: From a page move: This is a redirect from a ...
The northern hogsucker (Hypentelium nigricans) is a freshwater ray-finned fish belonging to the family Catostomidae, the suckers. It is native to the United States and Canada where it is found in streams and rivers. It prefers clear, fast-flowing water, where it can forage on the riverbed for crustaceans, mollusks, aquatic insects, algae and ...